Personally, I love the World Cup with all it's amazing passion, variety of emotions, the celebrations, the nationalistic pride, and on and on and on, that we see in this video.
While this is one of the more celebrated gathering of nations, there is a gathering of nations that is coming that will top all events and gatherings that have taken place, combined; the gathering of all peoples to worship, celebrate, enjoy, the Lord of the nations, forever!
When the folks in Genesis 11 built their tower of Babel unto themselves saying; "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth", there might have been a problem.
But God immediately entered into the picture, creating mass confusion, and then doing the one thing they did not want to have happen, scattering them all over the face of the earth!
Then after God created a problem, He gave the solution, through Abraham in Genesis 12:3, making the promise that "all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
God has been gathering the nations unto Himself for His glory since that time and we can see the fulfillment of that promise when He said in Rev. 5: "and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation." Then in Rev. 7 saying of those He had purchased; "After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne, saying: Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!"
As we enjoy this wonderful global coming together of nations, the World Cup, let us be about the real celebration of reaching the nations for His glory with the end in sight.
Watch this last video and be moved to pray, live, give, free from all the things that grip our emotions and lives, but firmly engaged in what He is doing among the nations, calling them together for ultimate glory, worship and celebration.
Enjoy this free eBook, Loving the Church, Blessing the Nations, by clicking on the cover.
